Question
This author is grouped among the “Edwardians” in an essay critiquing his claim that no contemporary “young novelists” create convincing characters. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author criticized in an essay titled for him and a hypothetical woman. This prolific British novelist wrote Anna of the Five Towns, The Old Wives’ Tale, and the Clayhanger series.
ANSWER: Arnold Bennett [or Enoch Arnold Bennett; accept “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”]
[10e] This author lambasted Bennett’s method of characterization in the essay “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.” In another essay, this author wrote that a woman writer “must have money and a room of her own.”
ANSWER: Virginia Woolf [or Adeline Virginia Stephen]
[10m] Along with Bennett, Woolf grouped this author and John Galsworthy among the “Edwardians.” In a novella by this author, a female character named Weena gives the protagonist two bizarre flowers that he later shows to dinner guests.
ANSWER: H. G. Wells [or Herbert George Wells] (The novella is The Time Machine.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 12.00 | 70% | 40% | 10% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Vassar | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Rowan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |